Shotgun tarimas:

/'ʃɑ:t,gən /

Shotgun audio:

Žodžio paaiškinimas anglų kalba:

• noun: A smoothbore gun that fires shot over short ranges. Also called scattergun.
• noun: Football An offensive formation, used especially for passing, in which the quarterback receives the snap several yards behind the line of scrimmage.
• noun: Southern U.S. A house whose architecture is characterized by several rooms joined in a straight line from the front to the back: "Shotguns [are] so named because a shotgun fired through the front door of these long, narrow homes could pass straight through the house and out the back door without hitting any barriers” ( Melissa O. Fryauf). See Regional Note at beignet.
• adjective: Of, relating to, or using a shotgun.
• adjective: Obtained by or involving by coercion: a shotgun compromise.
• adjective: Covering a wide range in a haphazard or ineffective manner: shotgun methods of testing the hypothesis that wasted time and money.
• verb-transitive: To shoot at with a shotgun.

Lietuviškos reikšmės:

šratinis šautuvas shotgun marriage/wedding priverstinės vedybos (dėl nėštumo)

to ride shotgun šnek. būti budriam